The entire roof of the houses on both sides had collapsed because of the decay of the wooden beams, and nothing could be seen from the windows.

We could see the green smoke from the spot we were at this time, but the smoke was not as thick as we had just seen, and we immediately ran over there in an emergency.

After passing through a gate made entirely of stone, the three of us reached the road inside the second ring of the building, from which the smoke was rising.

It's just that the weeds here are more vigorous, even overgrown. I tore off a branch, and it looked like an artemisia plant, with small leaves, and I thought it would look like a tumbleweed when it withered and died.

"Isn't this grass overgrown?"

"Yes, there has been no one for at least a thousand years." I guessed for a moment and replied to the fat man earlier.

"No, no matter how long it is, it should have a limit, and with this kind of long method, there must be something wrong with the soil underground." The fat man was bored and pushed away to face the weeds that had completely enveloped us. There are also some small stems mixed in with the weeds.

"What's the problem."

"Have you ever heard of the saying that there is more artemisia in salty land?"

Naturally, I didn't know, so I shook my head, only to find that I was behind him, and said, "I don't know." ”

Before the fat man could speak, Xue Ning preemptively said: "This statement actually means that salty land is not completely saline-alkali land, and it is especially easy to grow plants that like this kind of land, such as thin vine plants like dodder seeds. There are many theories about salty land, but the most common one is that it was either a massacre or an ancient battlefield, with a lot of blood flowing into the soil. ”

"I know a lot." The fat man didn't look back and still drove the road.

"I've heard that, too." Xue Ning said modestly

"Most likely, the fall of such a huge ancient kingdom was the slaughter of the whole city, and the blood flowed like a river, and the blood flowed into the soil under the stone slabs." The fat man said again in front.

I couldn't help but tremble in my heart, and my attention was focused on the ground, the stone slabs were all black, and there were still quite a lot of black stones used in the ruins of the ancient city and some outbuildings, and there were naturally no traces on the stone slabs, and the cracks were also crowded with plant canes.

After about ten minutes of walking through the weeds, we finally got out of the weeds, which was probably a large stone slab, and behind it was a building with an opening that seemed to be some kind of meeting place.

The building with an opening on one side is supported by two stone pillars, and there is a fire on the side, and the flame is already very small. At one of the pillars, there were legs exposed, as if someone was leaning against it.

The fat man shouted a few times, but there was no response from there. We rushed over and found a man lying there. Dirty, covered in mud, and covered in blood, this person is one of the two people we have been looking for, Lin Yang.

Xue Ning looked extremely excited, and rushed over to shake Lin Yang, who was leaning on the pillar, and shook it a few times while shouting, but he didn't see any soberness.

Seeing this, the fat man immediately pulled away Xue Ning, who had already lost his mind: "You are shaking down, if you don't die, you have to shake it to death." ”

Xue Ning reacted and found that he was a little excited, sitting on the ground panting, and the fat man put his hand on Lin Yang's nose at this time.

"There's still gas, maybe it's too much blood loss." After saying that, the fat man went to rummage through the contents of his backpack, and we also found some medicines in the camp of the previous expedition.

I helped the fat man clean up, but it turned out that there were some painkillers and anti-inflammatory medicines, as well as some bandages to stop bleeding, and we couldn't do anything else, so several people worked together to bandage the wound on Lin Yang's head.

At first, we didn't find the wound because it was covered by hair, but when we rinsed the blood on his face, we found that there was such a hollow hole under the cover of the hair, and it looked like the skull should have been shattered.

"Hey...... There's no way, whether he can survive or not depends on his own life. The fat man sighed a few times.

At this time, I realized that Lin Yang was the only one here, but Raba and that Xu Qing were not there.

"The other man and Rabah heard the voice of Rabah." I went around and shouted the names of Raba and Xu Qing a few times. There was no response as a result.

The fat man also looked around, but there was no trace of the surrounding grass except for the marks we stepped on.

"I said this unlucky boy, how did you get here?" The fat man spun around and came back and sat down.

I thought about it for a long time, and I couldn't understand how these two people got to this place through the miasma of the rainforest, and how they arrived at this place silently.

We waited in place for more than ten minutes, Lin Yang still didn't wake up, his breath was weak, so the fat man suggested that it would be better to rest here first, and wait to see Lin Yang's situation and make plans.

As he spoke, the fat man took out the alcohol stove and a small pot, and he cooked something, and we were all hungry. I wanted to feed Lin Yang some, but his body was very weak and couldn't feed it at all.

About an hour later, we were resting against the pillar. At this time, on the edge of the grass on the side, there was a sudden and crisp sound of metal impact.

The fat man was suddenly startled, and Xue Ning and I were also startled and looked in the direction where the voice came from. A person who looked similar to Lin Yang was standing in the grass, as if he had just leaned out of the grass, and a metal kettle on the ground was still shaking, and the sound of metal hitting just now was made by it.

Xue Ning immediately stood up at this time and shouted: "Xu Qing"

The person who came out of the grass was Xu Qing, and when we helped him over, we found that he was not in a very good state, but he was basically still awake.

He seemed to be quite hungry, and there was no bag to be seen, so the fat man cooked something for him to eat. He ate it clean in a few bites, and we finally learned what happened after they went missing.

Xu Qing's description was very brief, the two of them were following the back of the team at the time, Lin Yang wanted to relieve his stomach discomfort, and he didn't dare to go alone, so he pulled Xu Qing hard, but Xu Qing waited for more than ten minutes, and when the two of them wanted to catch up with the team, they couldn't see the figure. Just as they were catching up with the dense trees, they tied a red ribbon to the place where it was completely impossible to distinguish whether it was the road or the woods, and they went inside.

When they were about to turn back and walk back, they heard the voice of someone in the direction of travel, but the sound in front of them dispelled the idea of turning back.

After that, they never caught up with the people in front of them, but the shouting of people in front never stopped. They can only keep walking, rest when they are tired, and continue to walk after resting, the group of people seems to be always not far in front of them, how can they not catch up. Whether it's speeding up, slowing down the group of people, that is, keeping the same distance from them.

The fat man scratched his head at this time: "You must have been poisoned by inhaling miasma." ”

Xu Qing shook his head and said that he didn't know. Later, they went out of the rainforest and arrived at the gate of the ancient city, and the fat man asked where the gate was, and Xu Qing pointed in one direction.

"It must be over there, we came in through the gate and went up to the city wall, and we walked from the wall all the way to here."

When I looked in that direction, it was completely opposite to the direction we came from, which is a problem, we should all be walking the same road, even if it is a little off, it is completely possible to come out of the opposite direction.

"Are you sure?" The fat man said

Xu Qing nodded, looking very weak.

The fat man looked at Lin Yang and asked him, "Then what's the matter with him?" ”

Lin Yang was still in a coma, Xu Qing also looked at Lin Yang and sighed and said, "We walked from the city wall to this piece, and he stepped on the edge of the city wall, but that piece fell off the tower, he fell down and hit his head." ”

Xu Qing said for a while and then continued: "In order to go down to save him, I also fell down when I climbed down, but fortunately, it was okay, I wasted a lot of effort to get him to this place." ”

What they're going through is similar to ours, it's all very weird. But in terms of the hallucinations caused by the inhalation of the miasma, it was completely different from us, we were in a coma and completely incapacitated, but the two of them were still able to walk into the city, and the position where they came out was far from us. I was thinking about how to get back when I saw the fat man shaking the kettle.

"There's no water." The fat man threw the kettle again

This water was the only thing we found in the camp, and the plan was that there should be a water source in the city, so we didn't care about it, but we didn't even see a puddle along the way.

Xu Qing picked up his kettle, because the moment he was on the edge of the grass just now only had half a pot left.

"Water is a problem, I just went to fetch water, and there is a water source when I walk inside."

The fat man immediately decided to let Xu Qing lead the way to find water, but when I saw Xu Qing's appearance, I felt sleepy and powerless, so I stopped the fat man and said, "Don't go yet, let him rest for a while." It's not very short now, let's go again tomorrow. ”

The fat man just gave up, and it was just afternoon. We also found the two of them, Raba, we haven't seen his figure yet, and we asked Xu Qing that he hasn't seen either, but don't worry about him now, listening to him like that doesn't seem to be dangerous. For the time being, wait for Lin Yang's condition to get better tomorrow and then go to him.

In this way, we all went to find a place to rest, and Lin Yang's condition never improved. The wind hung up at night, and the wind whistling was very scary, and the thing that broke us down happened when we woke up the next day.

Lin Yang's body temperature was completely gone, his whole body was stiff, his face was blue, he had died of a brain injury last night, Xue Ning had no way to accept the truth at all, and squatted aside and groaned after the collapse.

Lin Yang's death gave me a trace of weird emotions in my heart, I didn't get along with him for too long, but I still felt that it was too sudden, and I couldn't react at all. I couldn't say anything, the fat man sighed and sighed, and I was left with silence.

Strictly speaking, this is the first time I have faced the death of someone around me, and I really can't choose to ignore it as usual. Because this is a living person, it is suddenly gone, and just yesterday, I can still feel his breath, although it is also in danger, but there is no thought that it will die at all.

If his death was a disaster for us who are only now recovering from our horror, then what happened next magnified it tenfold. After the fat man was melancholy for a while, he found that Xu Qing had not moved, and when he went to see him, he saw that Xu Qing's face was pale, and he almost thought that he was also dead.

But Xu Qing's condition is basically the same as yesterday's Lin Yang, after we checked, we found that there was a large bruise on his back, and the fat man arched up in pain when he touched Xu Qing, maybe he fell when he climbed down from the city wall to save Lin Yang, and he didn't find it.

Now there is only one worst-case plan, we are ready to give up Raba for the time being, and leave some food here, if we hurry up, maybe Xu Qing still has a great hope of surviving.